KAHOOT

 Today we are going to talk about Kahoot!, a very useful tool for teachers and students to learn and review concepts in an entertaining way, as if it were a contest. The most common way is through multiple choice questions, although there is also room for discussion and debate. Finding a game or application that fits exactly the theme of a class or group is difficult, and therefore one of the main advantages of Kahoot! is that anyone can create the content for a game, be it the Language learning, the geometric bodies or the verbs.

Introduction

Kahoot is the name given to this social and gamified education web service, that is, it behaves like a game, rewarding those who progress in the answers with a higher score that catapults them to the top of the ranking. Anyone can create a game board, here called "a Kahoot!" so, if you want, you can create a test on the types of triangles, the different celestial bodies or on the rules of the road. There are no limitations as long as it falls under one of the four types of applications available today. Once a Kahoot is created, other people, players must join it by entering a PIN code in the mobile app. In this way, the mobile becomes a remote control with which they can answer the questions. At the end of the game, that is, when all the questions have been completed, a podium rewards those who have achieved the highest score. The teacher can in turn export the data of the contestants as an Excel file. Kahoot has been designed with educational purposes in mind, although it could very well be used simply for entertainment. The idea is the same that we have heard so many times: learning while having fun. It is however more of a reinforcement tool, as the nature of the questions is too short to go into too much detail. The good thing here is that the one who is controlling the game can precisely control when the next question is passed, so that he can pause to add the necessary explanations.

How Does Kahoot Work?

It requires two very different parts. On the one hand, there is the preparation of the test, which will generally fall to the teacher. To do so you need to create an account on Kahoot! at this link, a quick process that barely takes a minute. easily, while the screen shows the question and who is winning.Then you can create your first Kahoot! which, as we saw before, can be of four types. It is a simple process in which you simply have to follow the instructions. For example, to create a new test you simply have to indicate its title, its language and, if you want, add an additional image on it. Adding the questions themselves is also easy. Click on Add question, write a title for the question and the four available options. Do not forget to check the box next to the answers that are correct, which can be several. When you have it, press Next. Repeat the process to add more questions and when you are satisfied press Save to save your Kahoot. You can always edit it later, if you change your mind and want to include more questions or change the ones you've already added

How to play a Kahoot!

First of all, the teacher or moderator must open the Kahoot! on a computer. It is simply a web page that is accessed through a link. If you have created the Kahoot! yourself, you can simply go to your Kahoot! created and touch Play it. The teacher or moderator, the one who has opened the Kahoot! is in charge of configuring the rules and the type of game. The main thing is to choose if it will be a classic competition of all against all or by teams. By tapping on Game options you can adjust other options such as whether the questions will be automatically shuffled or whether there will be a podium. When you have chosen the game mode, the game PIN code will be generated, which is displayed in large at the top of the screen. Now is when players can join the game from another computer, by visiting Kahoot. In the application, press Enter PIN and write the numbers of the PIN code of the Kahoot! in progresspress Enter and all you have to do to join the game is to choose which nickname you want to use, which will be how the rest of the players see you. The moderator can choose when the game starts, which will need at least one participant. When you see fit, touching Start will start the first question, on the screen the four answers are shown and to what color and symbol they correspond, so that each participant can answer privately. As soon as you answer you know if you have done it correctly, in which case you earn points, which increase if you are in streak. At the end of the game the podium is shown -if it was activated- so that those who have answered correctly the greatest number of times are rewarded. 

In this blog, we talked about a very useful and helpful application called Kahoot. It isn't only in web, but it is also available as the mobile application for Android or for iPhone and iPad. I hope this blog post about Kahoot will be beneficial for you all readers.